Shloka 26 - Adhyaya 85 - Reva Khanda - Avanti Khanda | Japanese | Vedapath

Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 26

Devanagari script

युधिष्ठिर उवाच । सोमनाथप्रभावं मे संक्षेपात्कथय प्रभो । दुःखार्णवनिमग्नानां त्राता प्राप्तो द्विजोत्तम

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | somanāthaprabhāvaṃ me saṃkṣepātkathaya prabho | duḥkhārṇavanimagnānāṃ trātā prāpto dvijottama

Translation

ユディシュティラは言った。「主よ、ソーマナータ（Somanātha）の威徳を簡潔に語ってください。最勝の二度生まれ（dvija）よ、あなたは苦しみの大海に沈む者たちの救い手として来られました。」

Word by Word

युधिष्ठिरःYudhiṣṭhira

उवाचsaid

सोमनाथप्रभावम्the greatness/power of Somanātha

मेto me/of me

संक्षेपात्briefly/in brief

कथयtell

प्रभोO Lord

दुःखार्णवocean of sorrow

निमग्नानाम्of those sunk (in)

दुःखार्णवनिमग्नानाम्of those immersed in the ocean of sorrow

त्राताa savior

प्राप्तःhas been obtained/has come

द्विजोत्तमO best of the twice-born

Speaker

Yudhiṣṭhira

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Somanātha (requested prabhāva)

Type: kshetra

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya (addressed as dvijottama)

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, solemn and earnest, addresses a venerable brāhmaṇa-sage, requesting the condensed greatness of Somanātha for the afflicted.

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Somanātha

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Approaching a knower of dharma and hearing a tīrtha’s greatness is itself a path of relief from sorrow and spiritual uplift.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Somanātha—invoked here as a sacred locus of Śiva’s greatness within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative frame.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

No specific rite is prescribed in this verse; it sets up the act of listening (śravaṇa) to the mahātmya.